-LRB- CNN -RRB- More than 100 schools in Pakistan have been renamed in honor of the children killed in a Taliban siege at a Peshawar school last year .

According to the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , 107 local schools now bear the name of a student killed during the December 16 attack on the Army Public School .

Government spokesman Mushtaq Ghani told CNN that the gesture was a way to remember the bravery of the students who were taking exams in an auditorium when Taliban militants strapped with explosives laid siege .

Some six hours later , 145 were dead , 132 of them children , according to authorities .

In February , Pakistani authorities arrested a suspect , accusing him of commanding the attack .

The Army Public School is home to about 1,100 students and staff , most of them sons and daughters of army personnel from around Peshawar .

CNN 's Sophia Saifi and Mariano Castillo contributed to this report .

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More than 100 schools renamed in honor of students killed in a Taliban schoolhouse attack

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A six-hour siege at a Peshawar school killed 145 people in December